Posts Tagged ‘leed’

Window Film and LEED Certification

Tuesday, February 10th, 2009

Every item in your home can be affected by using Window Film. The interior stays at a constant temperature instead of having to be constantly cooled or heated. This lessens the pollution that is emitted from your heating and cooling system. It also helps your interior by preserving your belongings lessening the need to replace them more often.
By becoming LEED certified using the Window Film that can reduce the suns UV rays by 99% you are saying that you care about the environment and want to help conserve. There are different ratings for homes and office buildings. LEED-H is the standard used for measuring a home for certification.

There are in the works or already available home tax rebates and other incentives for having your buildings LEED certified. When an independent third party verifies that a building is meeting the standards for a green building, the LEED certification is issued.

Using Window Film in offices is another way of conserving. This will allow the office to stay cooler in the summer, warmer in the winter and reduce the need to purchase new furniture and floor coverings. It is also healthier for workers. The incidence of people missing work due to colds and illness may be lessened by keeping the environment more consistent.

There are many benefits to the use of Window Film in both your home and office buildings. The more you can learn about conserving the better the savings in more ways than one.

Green Aspects of Window Film?

Saturday, January 24th, 2009

With all the emphasis on saving energy and lowering costs for fuel consumption including utilities, the need for home energy savings is paramount. When considering the things we can do to make our home more energy efficient; think green. The U.S. has adopted a standard for making our homes and buildings safer by decreasing the environmental aspects that can be affect the people who live and work there.

There are certain adverse aspects to building that can be improved by following the LEED example. LEED stands for the Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design. Several places are using this for the standard to measure the viable aspects of buildings.

The savings that is recognized is paying off by lowering bills in addition to making them safer. Being LEED certified means your building is maintaining an environmental stability without destroying the ecological balance in your area.

Using our line of Commercial Window Film is the best way to reduce heat issues in your structure. Our line of Huper Optik window film can help your structure get Leed Certification.